Other sites with high Sparks content:

New: www.geocities.com/mtruksa Martin Truksa's Sparks website - loads of intelligent reviews - take a look!!!

New: Pictures of Sparks recent gig in Hackney - thanks Michelle Robek: http://www.beyondthedarkroom.co.uk (go to the 'Stage' page)

The new Sparks Official Website

New: sparks.pagina.nl Sparks startpage (Dutch) - very well done link-page, maintained by Mirja Morietta

New: Fossil Sparks (Australian fansite by Fossilise apostle)

Be quick!!: Don't know how long this will last: downloadable video of "Eaten By The Monster Of Love" - thanks Paul@REMOVETHISPART2REDUCESPAMRageTV.com: http://www.virtualsanctum.com/movies/monster.htm

For the promotion of the Lil Beethoven album, Sparks have done some interviews for the radio.

Sparks In Cyberspace - Very humourous site maintained by Larry Graves

http://www.chez.com/indiscreet/index.htm - French "Best of Sparks" site maintained by Christophe Horlin

New: http://www.sparks-alex.narod.ru - Alex Konstantinov's Sparks website (in Russia!)

Gratuitous Chats - Fan maintained Sparks forum

http://www.vcdbtournai.com - Belgium Sparks site maintained by jean-paul dussart - including pics of the FMR concert

http://www.austrohungaro.com/hidrogenesse/sparks - Sparks RFH pics by carlos y genis

http://beat.com.au/beatinterview.html - Recent Australian interview with Sparks

http://www.inpress.com.au - Recent Australian interview with Sparks

Former Sparks (/Jet/Radio Stars/Blue Meanies/Mira/John's Children) member Martin Gordon also runs his own website: http://www.martingordon.de (take a look!!!)

The Sparks MaelBros Club - Interactive Community - incl. chat, pics etc.

Sparks The Band - Another Interactive Community - incl. chat, pics etc.

What does Ron really like...

What does Russell really like...

http://www.e-lectric.de/berichte/181200/sparks.htm - a review of Sparks 2000 Munich concert

Rimtastic

Sparks art at Xcott's Xparks Xpace

Nice review of the Oglio Sparks catalogue: http://desert.net/ww/02-15-99/alibi_tunes.html

A nice 1995 article from the Hamilton Spectator at http://www.octopusmediaink.com/Sparks.html

Frank Famiglietti has archived a recent Jonathan Ross interview at http://www.warmrobot.com/sparks/bbc/bbc.html (Quicktime format)

Recent interview (18th October 2002) with R&R from the Danny Baker Breakfast Show on Radio London

Don't know how long it will stay, but there is a nice interview by Michael Collins for "Today's Independant" right here!

Streaming Sparks audio and video (3 clips) at http://www.giga.de/x-stream/archives/t/thesparks/index.html
Especially the first clip is VERY INTERESTING...

More streaming Sparks audio and video (interviews for the Balls/TCBTS releases): http://www.giga.de/x-stream/archives/t/sparks/index.html

The video of "The Calm Before The Storm" can be found at http://www.zdf.de/unterhaltung/fernsehgarten/stars/39127/index.asp

Sparks UK management representive Bonaire has also a dedicated page: http://www.maytrees.clara.net/html/sparks.htm

Sparks booking info at http://www.thebossbookingagency.com

A long story about Sparks visit to Hamburg in 1999 at Andreas Hüne's website: http://home.t-online.de/home/ahuene/meetengl.htm

At http://www.radiodayz.com/Interviews/Mael/Mael.htm you can listen to Russell being interviewed by Raechel Donahue. No idea how long this will stay, so listen soon !
For those who never heard it: at the end of part 3 you can hear the 'Club version' of 'Music That You Can Dance To'.

A nice article about Sparks and lots of Glam at http://www.geocities.com/~platformboots

Read anything about previous Sparks-O-Rama's at Stephen Hendrie's website

Lots of additional info and links at Madeline Bocaro's website.

Lots of concert pics (and high SQUIRRELS content) at Rob Morgan's Poplust.
Sparks 2000 Key Club and in-store pics here.

Noize Rockmagazine - Dutch interview 1996 (the day after Parkpop)

Lots of Sparks lyrics, tabs(!!!) and pics at Bryan Forbes' "Masters Apprentices website.

Nicely formatted Sparks stuff (SparkSound) at Tea Al's Homepage.

Amazing stories about being a roadie (a.o. for Sparks) at Karl Kuenning's (virtual) book on the internet: ROADIE - a true story (at least the parts I remember)

Jay Bond put some nice pics of the 2000 L.A. happenings on his website: http://www3.sympatico.ca/jcbond/sparks.html

Nice article in the L.A. Times: http://www.calendarlive.com/oc/lat_sparks000823.htm

Nice article in the OC Weekly: http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/00/51/music-kane.shtml

Nice article in the Hollywood Reporter: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/reviews/ArticleDisplay.asp?ArticleID=3019

Nice interview in The Guardian: http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4050033,00.html

Ron and Russell's favourite 10 albums: http://www.destinationpop.com

Some sparks stuff here with an online video http://www.launch.com/music/artistpage/1,4391,1025298,00.html

A nice article about Sparks in L.A. Weekly: http://www.laweekly.com/ink/98/50/reverb-alfvegren.shtml

An interview in "Der Spiegel" at: http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/nf/0,1518,92904,00.html

There are a few pictures from last year (1999) at the following website: http://show.fotex.de/music/99_09/stories/sparks.htm

There is an interview in the August 2000 issue of The Lexicon Magazine: http://www.lexiconmagazine.com/about.html

Rainer Mohra aka "Cover Crew" maintains a nice series of midi files (incl. a Sparks' one) at his "Cover Crew" website: http://www.covercrew.de

Steve Pond's Truth About Glam Rock;

Just for fun (corrected March 15, 1999): http://www.classicthemes.com/50sTVThemes/themePages/origAmateurHr.html.

Sparks fans will also like the Tiger Lillies.

Lots about the history of former Sparks band members at the amazingly well done John's Children official(!) website.

Tim Murrah maintains a "Good Stuff" webzine (incl. audio): http://listen.to/goodstuff

More info about concerts and new (re-)releases at the Oglio Records website.

New: Other "impossible discographies": http://home.swipnet.se/skroff/

Links which have not been catalogued/verified yet:
http://www.roadkill.com/todd/review/album2/halfnelson-bs.rev
http://prodigy-music.excite.com/artist/biography/-8413
http://www.imperium.lenin.ru/CEBEP/arc/1/khazaria/current.htm
http://www2.osk.3web.ne.jp/~buggle/sparks.html
http://www.5years.com/briansands.htm
http://wiem.onet.pl/wiem/001b78.html
http://web.pdx.edu/~psu14927/zolo.html
http://www.babysue.com/LMNOP-Reviews-Sept-00.html
http://melodie.in4.sk/M7_Sparks.html
http://www.sound.de/interviews/sparks.html
http://www.octopusmediaink.com/Sparks.html
http://rocknpop.com/TheSparks.htm

Links from Russia which have not been catalogued/verified yet (thanks Alex Konstantinov):
http://www.poseti.ru/ever/music/ehm_2000_12.html#am
http://www.filearea.co.il/rus/music/relis/17/index.html
http://www.mnogo.ru/news.html?newsid=586
http://afisha.ru/cd-review.phtml?id=83154
http://www.m21.ru/reviews/2000-09/20/more143.html?type=nrevs
http://www.utro.ru/articles/culture/2000/09/21/2000092108122031522.shtml
http://www.zvuki.ru/A/P/2353/
http://mega.km.ru/rock/encyclop.asp?TopicNumber=1538&search=sparks#srch0
http://www.nestor.minsk.by/mg/mg98/37/mg83712.htm

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